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Several cities in China add Covid curbs as millions still under lockdown

Several Covid-hit Chinese cities from the country's east to west have imposed fresh restrictions and lockdowns on their populations to contain flare-ups that are again threatening to disrupt local economies.

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Chinese cities in Tibet begin mass Covid testing

Parts of Tibet are running mass Covid-19 testing, including the Chinese autonomous region's two largest cities, to fight a rare flare-up, while clusters were growing in tropical Hainan and in Xinjiang in China's west.

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Perseid meteor shower begins: When and where you can see it

A man watches the Perseid meteor shower on the Pamir Plateau on August 13, 2021 in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images) The show of the summer has arrived, but it's not at your local movie theater. The Perseid meteor shower returns every year between July and August, offering sky-gazers a chance to enjoy the last weeks of the sweltering season outside, looking up at the night sky.According to NASA, the Perseids are most active from July 17 to Aug.

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Beijing Olympics opening ceremony starts under cloud of Covid, rights fears

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Trudeau belongs on Santa’s naughty list, alongside Chinese and Russian leaders: poll

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to land on Santa’s “naughty” list this holiday season — and they think he’s more likely to wake up to a lump of coal than Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to a new Ipsos poll.Ipsos asked Canadians about whether a list of high-profile individuals — from political leaders, to CEOs, to celebrities — belong on Santa’s “nice” list or his “naughty” list.Canadians who responded to the survey said Trudeau was more likely to end up on the naughty list than the Chinese president, who heads the government that detained two Canadians, Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, for more than 1,000 days.The Chinese government has also been accused of committing genocide against the Uyghur population in the Xinjiang

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G-7 leaders pledge 1B COVID-19 vaccines to countries

CARBIS BAY, England - Leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations on Sunday pledged more than 1 billion coronavirus vaccine doses to poorer nations, vowed to help developing countries grow their economies while fighting climate change and agreed to challenge China’s "non-market economic practices" and call out Beijing for rights abuses in Xinjiang and Hong Kong.Speaking at the end of a G-7 leaders’ summit in southwest England, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson praised the "fantastic degree of harmony" among the reenergized group, which met in person for the first time in two years.The leaders wanted to show that international cooperation is back after the upheavals caused by the pandemic and the unpredictability of former U.S.

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Chinese authorities order video denials by Uyghurs of abuses

URUMQI – China has highlighted an unlikely series of videos this year in which Uyghur men and women deny U.S. charges that Beijing is committing human rights violations against their ethnic group. In fact, a text obtained by the AP shows that the videos are part of a government campaign that raises questions about the willingness of those filmed.

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On Eid, Xinjiang imams defend China against US criticism

BEIJING – Muslim leaders from the Xinjiang region rejected Western allegations that China is suppressing religious freedom, speaking at a reception Thursday for foreign diplomats and media at the end of the holy month of Ramadan.

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Kerry: US weighs sanctions on China solar over forced labor

The Biden administration is considering sanctions over China’s alleged use of forced labor in production of solar panels and other components in renewable energy, climate envoy John Kerry told lawmakers Wednesday.

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Drop in Xinjiang birthrate largest in recent history: report

BEIJING – Xinjiang in far western China had the sharpest known decline in birthrates between 2017 and 2019 of any territory in recent history, according to a new analysis by an Australian think tank.

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China rejects accusations of abuses in Xinjiang

BEIJING – China’s government on Tuesday rejected accusations of abuses in the Xinjiang region after a human rights group appealed for a U.N. investigation into possible crimes against humanity.

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Group urges UN to probe China for crimes against humanity

KASHGAR – A human rights group appealed to the United Nations on Monday to investigate allegations China's government is committing crimes against humanity in the Xinjiang region.

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21 Chinese coal miners trapped by underground flood

BEIJING – Rescuers on Sunday were trying to reach 21 coal miners who were trapped by an underground flood in China's northwest, a state news agency reported.

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China warns Washington not to boycott Winter Olympics

BEIJING – China's government warned Washington on Wednesday not to boycott next year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing after the Biden administration said it was talking with allies about a joint approach to complaints of human rights abuses.

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Uyghur activist describes family’s disappearance

Executive Director of the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project Mehmet Tohti describes how his entire family was arrested once he began to speak out against China’s treatment of the Uyghur population living in Xinjiang.

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‘We’re coming to get you’: China’s critics facing threats, retaliation for activism in Canada

In July 2019, Mehmet Tohti was just hours away from speaking publicly to politicians about the Chinese government’s horrific abuse of the Uyghur population in Xinjiang when he received a message on Twitter: “Your f—ing mother is dead,” it read. Trudeau says China must address world’s ‘significant’ concerns on Uyghur abuse Tohti had lost contact with his mother in late 2016, three years earlier.

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China pressures brands to reject reports of Xinjiang abuses

BEIJING – China stepped up pressure Monday on foreign shoe and clothing brands to reject reports of abuses in Xinjiang, telling companies that are targeted by Beijing for boycotts to look more closely and pointing to a statement by one that it found no forced labor.

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China announces sanctions on individuals, entities in Canada, U.S.

China on Saturday imposed sanctions against two American religious rights officials and one Canadian lawmaker in response to sanctions imposed by the United States and Canada over Xinjiang.Beijing has been pushing back against sanctions imposed by the United States, European Union, Britain and Canada for what they say are rights violations against Uighur Muslims and other Turkic minorities in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang.

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China erasing H&M from internet amid Xinjiang backlash

HONG KONG – H&M disappeared from the internet in China as the government raised pressure on shoe and clothing brands and announced sanctions Friday against British officials in a spiraling fight over complaints of abuses in the Xinjiang region.

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China sanctions Britons after EU move on Xinjiang

BEIJING – China on Friday announced sanctions on British individuals and entities following the U.K.’s joining the EU and others in sanctioning Chinese officials accused of human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region.

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Uyghurs in Turkey protest Chinese foreign minister's visit

ISTANBUL – Hundreds of Uyghurs staged protests in Ankara and Istanbul on Thursday, denouncing Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s visit to Turkey and demanding that the Turkish government take a stronger stance against human rights abuses in China’s far-western Xinjiang region.

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Here's what foreign brands have to say about Xinjiang

HONG KONG – Nike. The Gap. Uniqlo. Major clothing and footwear brands are under attack in China after Europe, the U.S. and other countries sanctioned Chinese officials this week over alleged human rights abuses.

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China attacks foreign clothing, shoe brands over Xinjiang

BEIJING – China’s ruling Communist Party is lashing out at H&M and other clothing and footwear brands as it retaliates for Western sanctions imposed on Chinese officials accused of human rights abuses in the northwestern region of Xinjiang.

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US, Europe, NATO close ranks to counter 'aggressive' China

BRUSSELS – The United States and countries around Europe are stepping up cooperation to respond to “aggressive and coercive” behavior by China, days after the U.S. and its allies launched coordinated sanctions against Chinese officials accused of rights abuses in the far-western Xinjiang region.

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EU slaps sanctions on 4 Chinese officials over Uyghur abuses

BRUSSELS – The European Union on Monday imposed sanctions on four Chinese officials accused of responsibility for abuses against Uyghur Muslims in a raft of measures targeting alleged human rights offenders around the world, despite warnings that Beijing could retaliate.

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White House sets low expectations for China talks in Alaska

The White House is setting low expectations ahead of Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan’s first face-to-face meeting with their Chinese counterparts in Anchorage, Alaska.

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US, China top diplomats discuss key issues, show differences

BEIJING – The top American and Chinese diplomats spoke Saturday in the first major exchange between the countries since President Joe Biden took office and touched on several critical issues that have strained their ties.

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Human rights, COVID at issue 1 year before Beijing Olympics

Building elaborate venues for Beijing's 2022 Winter Olympics is the easy part for China, just as it was for the city's Summer Olympics in 2008. The competition venues are ready, and non-competition sites will be completed this summer with the Games set to open one year from Thursday on Feb. 4, 2022.

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China blasts Pompeo over accusation of genocide in Xinjiang

BEIJING – An official from China's far west Xinjiang region accused former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday of trying to undermine Beijing’s relations with new President Joe Biden by declaring that China’s actions against the Uighur ethnic group are “genocide.”

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China labels Pompeo 'doomsday clown' over genocide claims

BEIJING – China’s Foreign Ministry described outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday as a “doomsday clown” and said his designation of China as a perpetrator of genocide and crimes against humanity was merely “a piece of wastepaper.” The allegations of abuses against Muslim minority groups in China's Xinjiang region are “outright sensational pseudo-propositions and a malicious farce concocted by individual anti-China and anti-Communist forces represented by Pompeo,” spokesperson Hua Chunying told reporters at a daily briefing.“In our view, Pompeo’s so-called designation is a piece of wastepaper.

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US accuses China of genocide against Uighurs, other Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo participates in a press briefing in the White House.

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Consumers, businesses to suffer from cotton ban, China says

BEIJING – China on Thursday said a U.S. order to halt imports of cotton and tomatoes from its Xinjiang region over alleged human rights abuses will disrupt global supply chains and harm businesses and consumers.

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China denies coercive birth control measures in Xinjiang

BEIJING – A Chinese official on Monday denied Beijing has imposed coercive birth control measures among Muslim minority women, following an outcry over a tweet by the Chinese Embassy in Washington claiming that government polices had freed women of the Uighur ethnic group from being “baby-making machines.” Xu Guixiang, a deputy spokesperson for the Xinjiang regional government, told reporters Monday that birth control decisions were made of the person’s own free will and that “no organization or individual can interfere.” “The growth rate of the Uighur population is not only higher than that of the whole Xinjiang population, but also higher than that of the minority population, and more significantly higher than that of the (Chinese

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AP Interview: China signals shift but no let-up in Xinjiang

BEIJING – A Chinese Communist Party official signaled Monday that there would likely be no let-up in its crackdown in the Xinjiang region, but said the government's focus is shifting more to addressing the roots of extremism.“We cannot be complacent at this moment, because the threats are still out there,” Xu Guixiang, the deputy director-general of the Xinjiang Communist Party publicity department, said in an interview with The Associated Press in Beijing.China's policies in the remote Xinjiang region, home to the Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic groups, have become a major point of division with the U.S.

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More questions on human rights for Beijing Winter Olympics

human-rights groups sent an open letter a month ago to IOC President Thomas Bach, asking that the games be removed from China. In reply, the IOC arranged an on-line meeting last week that included groups representing Tibet, Hong Kong and others.In a statement to the AP, the IOC said: “Awarding the Olympic Games to a national Olympic committee does not mean that the IOC agrees with the political structure, social circumstances or human rights standards in its country.

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Gloves linked to forced labor in China stopped at LA port

WASHINGTON – A shipment of women’s gloves at a California port has been traced to a factory that uses forced labor of people caught up in a brutal crackdown on ethnic minorities in China, U.S. authorities said Thursday.

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China to test 9 million people for coronavirus after new outbreak

China, 25 other countries call on Western nations to lift sanctions amid coronavirus Authorities were investigating the source of the infections in eight patients at Qingdao’s Municipal Chest Hospital and one family member, the National Health Commission said.“The whole city will be tested within five days,” it said on its social media account.China, where the pandemic emerged in December, has reported 4,634 deaths and 85,578 cases, plus nine suspected cases that have yet to be confirmed.The last reported virus transmissions within China were four patients found on Aug. 15 in the northwestern city of Urumqi in the Xinjiang region.

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Congress seeks to block goods from China over forced labor

WASHINGTON – A bipartisan bill aimed at keeping goods out of the U.S.

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Disney criticized for filming 'Mulan' in China's Xinjiang

SEOUL – Disney is under fire for filming part of its live-action reboot “Mulan” in Xinjiang, the region in China where the government has been accused of human rights abuses against Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim minorities.The final credits in the film, which was released on Disney Plus last week and is being rolled out in several countries this month, thank propaganda departments in Xinjiang and the public security bureau of Turpan, a Uighur-majority city in the region. Human rights activists and some China experts have taken to social media to condemn Disney for turning a blind eye to alleged abuses in Xinjiang.

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Human rights groups ask IOC to move Olympics from China

TOKYO – China's repression in Tibet, the status of the exiled Dalai Lama, and its treatment of ethnic minorities spurred violent protests ahead of Beijing's 2008 Olympics.It could happen again.China is host to the 2022 Winter Olympics with rumblings of a boycott and calls to move the games from Beijing because of alleged human rights violations.International Olympic President Thomas Bach was presented with that demand ahead of the body's executive board meeting in Switzerland on Wednesday by a coalition of human-rights groups representing Tibet, Uighurs in China's Xinjiang region, Hong Kong and others.

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Cases of coronavirus rising in Chinese region hit by abuse allegations

A spike in Covid-19 cases in China this week has led to fears of a second wave. Three separate clusters of infection were reported in mainland China as well as a sharp increase in cases in Hong Kong. Yvonne Murray reports from Beijing.

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China reports 101 new COVID-19 cases, highest in three months

BEIJING : China has registered 101 fresh cases of COVID-19, the highest since mid-April, according to the National Health Commission.Of the new cases, 89 of them were reported in Xinjiang, where mass testing in the autonomous region is underway, Al Jazeera reported.Eight cases in Liaoning, one in Beijing and 27 new asymptomatic COVID-19 patients were confirmed.According to CGTN, China, the original epicentre of the pandemic, has registered a total of 84,060 COVID-19 cases, with 273 asymptomatic patients currently under medical observation.

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China records highest number of virus cases since April

China has recorded 61 new coronavirus cases - the highest daily figure since April - driven by clusters in three separate regions.

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China reports 21 new coronavirus cases as movie theatres reopen in Beijing

coronavirus continues to recede in China’s capital.Cinemas in parts of the city deemed at low risk of cross-infection began admitting moviegoers under social distancing rules. Tickets must be booked in advance, attendance is capped at 30 per cent of capacity and no eating or drinking is allowed during the show.As with most venues in China, a temperature check and online travel record were required for entry.

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Beijing partly reopens movie theaters as virus declines

BEIJING – Beijing partially reopened movie theaters Friday as the threat from the coronavirus continues to recede in China’s capital. Cinemas in parts of the city deemed at low risk of cross-infection began admitting moviegoers under social distancing rules.

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China's Xinjiang reports 13 new COVID-19 cases

XINJIANG : Xinjiang reported 13 new confirmed domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases on Thursday, Xinhua reported citing the regional health commission.As per the commission, the 13 confirmed patients were all in the capital Urumqi.The region also registered 19 new asymptomatic cases, all in Urumqi, on Thursday.According to Xinhua, Xinjiang had 95 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 85 asymptomatic cases, and 3,346 people were still under medical observation.Chinese authorities had on Sunday declared the Xinjiang province in the country's far west in a "wartime situation" after the region reported a sudden spike in coronavirus cases.Urumqi had gone into sudden lockdown last Thursday after confirming one new local COVID-19 patient and three

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Coronavirus lockdown hits city of 6million amid new outbreaks after months without cases

coronavirus cases has raised fears of a new outbreak. The Chinese port city of Dalian had no new reported cases of Covid-19 for almost four months – until now.In the last few days three locals have been admitted to hospital with symptoms of the deadly virus.The authorities have scrambled to impose a lockdown – urging residents not to leave the city and tracing anyone who has had contact with the new victims.Localised spikes of coronavirus cases have been reported elsewhere in China.

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Xinjiang reports 16 new confirmed domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases

URUMQI : Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region reported 16 new confirmed domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases on Friday, the regional health commission said Saturday.The new confirmed cases, all in the regional capital of Urumqi, are from those who were earlier under concentrated medical observation, the commission said.As of Friday, Xinjiang had 17 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 11 asymptomatic cases, all in Urumqi, as well as 269 people still under medical observation.The region had reported a total of 93 confirmed COVID-19 cases as of Friday, with 73 cases having been cured and discharged from hospitals.

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